Fibre positioning revisited: the use of an off-the-shelf assembly robot for OPTIMOS-EVE
The OPTIMOS-EVE instrument proposed for the E-ELT aims to use the maximum field of view available to the E-ELT in the limit of natural or ground-layer-corrected seeing for high multiplex fibre-fed multi-object spectroscopy in the visible and near-IR. At the bare nasmyth focus of the telescope, this...
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| author | Dalton, G Whalley, MS Mounissamy, O Sawyer, E Tosh, I Terrett, D Lewis, I |
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| description | The OPTIMOS-EVE instrument proposed for the E-ELT aims to use the maximum field of view available to the E-ELT in the limit of natural or ground-layer-corrected seeing for high multiplex fibre-fed multi-object spectroscopy in the visible and near-IR. At the bare nasmyth focus of the telescope, this field corresponds to a focal plane 2.3m in diameter, with a plate-scale of ∼3mm/arcsec. The required positioning accuracy that is implied by seeing limited performance at this plate-scale brings the system into the range of performances of commercial off-the-shelf robots that are commonly used in industrial manufacturing processes. The cost-benefits that may be realized through such an approach must be offset against the robot performance, and the ease with which a useful software system can be implemented. We therefore investigate whether the use of such a system is indeed feasible for OPTIMOS-EVE, and the possibilities of extending this approach to other instruments that are currently in the planning stage. © 2010 SPIE. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:bcccddc2-b2ba-484f-b0df-ac01e162cb992022-03-27T05:27:07ZFibre positioning revisited: the use of an off-the-shelf assembly robot for OPTIMOS-EVEJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:bcccddc2-b2ba-484f-b0df-ac01e162cb99EnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2010Dalton, GWhalley, MSMounissamy, OSawyer, ETosh, ITerrett, DLewis, IThe OPTIMOS-EVE instrument proposed for the E-ELT aims to use the maximum field of view available to the E-ELT in the limit of natural or ground-layer-corrected seeing for high multiplex fibre-fed multi-object spectroscopy in the visible and near-IR. At the bare nasmyth focus of the telescope, this field corresponds to a focal plane 2.3m in diameter, with a plate-scale of ∼3mm/arcsec. The required positioning accuracy that is implied by seeing limited performance at this plate-scale brings the system into the range of performances of commercial off-the-shelf robots that are commonly used in industrial manufacturing processes. The cost-benefits that may be realized through such an approach must be offset against the robot performance, and the ease with which a useful software system can be implemented. We therefore investigate whether the use of such a system is indeed feasible for OPTIMOS-EVE, and the possibilities of extending this approach to other instruments that are currently in the planning stage. © 2010 SPIE. |
| spellingShingle | Dalton, G Whalley, MS Mounissamy, O Sawyer, E Tosh, I Terrett, D Lewis, I Fibre positioning revisited: the use of an off-the-shelf assembly robot for OPTIMOS-EVE |
| title | Fibre positioning revisited: the use of an off-the-shelf assembly robot for OPTIMOS-EVE |
| title_full | Fibre positioning revisited: the use of an off-the-shelf assembly robot for OPTIMOS-EVE |
| title_fullStr | Fibre positioning revisited: the use of an off-the-shelf assembly robot for OPTIMOS-EVE |
| title_full_unstemmed | Fibre positioning revisited: the use of an off-the-shelf assembly robot for OPTIMOS-EVE |
| title_short | Fibre positioning revisited: the use of an off-the-shelf assembly robot for OPTIMOS-EVE |
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